The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-22
bgoallTin'S EGV York Letter.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

Glider" II was on view at the Schaus Art
room on Fifth Avenue, and from the day
of the opening to the close, Mr.. Schaus'
elegant gallery has been crowded by the
intellect, beauty and fashion Of the city.
In contradistnction of some other art ex-
hibts, there has been no beating Of drums
or blowing of horns; there was no need OF
it-for here in small compass quietly reposed |
on its easel one of the most perfect works
of one Of the grandest masters OF ancient or
modern times.
Those who have fingered in the mag
niGcent galleries of the Louvre, Of Antwerp, |
of Vienna, Berlin and London, will need
nc reminder of him-of whose Imperial
genius this little canvas was one of the
brightest gems. Who was he whose features
the great painter has thus enshrined in i'm
mortality? No man knoweth; neither can
any man tell, certainly, why il is called the
Glider. Surmise hath 1t that 1t is the
portrait of the man who furnished the great
artist with frames for his pictures; If so he
received an immortal rccompense tor his
nulllUip NOTk. II ltuio navy ltt9oNN SliiCN
this grand face was painted, and saving the
fact that the colors are mellowed and
softened by time, it might have come from
the easel a year ago. The picture is not
| for million, but for those who love art for
arts self--and such man is William
Schaus, the fortunate owner Of this trea
sure aye ,and such man is Herman Schaus.
his nephew, in whose custody this priceless
canvas is placed. What is it worth? !
don't know; you have often heard of a
thing being worth its weight in gold; You
would have to pile your double eagles very
high on the Glider, to get it from William
Schaus. What is its great merit? 1t lies
in the fact. that this is the absolute pei
fection of human portraiture; beyond this,
human art cannot CO. The face is the
pcrsonification Of thorough and absolute
honesty. AS Hamlet says, "Pd take the
ghosts word for thousand pounds" A
calm satisfaction rests on every feature,
and he looks like a man whose lines have
fallen in pleasant places. One of the most
remarkable effects Isl that walk about the
room wherever you will, the eyes follow
you with kindly gaze, and as your atten-
ton becomes more fixed on the face, 1t
seems as if the old Dutchman might step
down from the canvas 10 bid you pleasant
Gooden mornin. If it were not for the
, presence OF this imperial picture, there are
three others that would challenge admira-
+ ton in any collection in the world: Ros-
seau, Diaz, and Carrot, which it would
be difficult to match in any collection on
the American continent. Nothing but the
most exquisite taste, undivided love of AT
and abundant wealth could have rendered
such a collection possible. William Schaus
l and his nephew, Herman Schaus, have
I done much for art in the United States
+, the evidences Of their genius and taste are
! to be seen in the finest collections in the
e and-but nothing they have done, can equa
the present obligation, under which they
n have laid all lovers of the true and beauti
d full in art, in presenting to the public thc
n present magnificent collection, which il
e crowned with Rembrandt's Glider.
Another Enoch Arden turned up II
' Brooklyn the other night, after an absence
II of thirty years. One night in the fall o
" 1886, Mr.. p. Davis, who was then a ricl
u bl oker had n quarrel with his wife; h.
VI walked out of the house, and she never Sc
( eyes on him again till she found him tn
> other day ragged tramp in a charitabl
} institution in Brooklyn. When he left tina
. city thirty years ago, he was a well to d
d broker, young and handsome; a member o
10 all the swell clubs, with cOmfortoble ban
n account and everything prosperous abou
/ him. When he returned one bitter nigh
s. last week, he knocked at the door of
charitable institution, The Good Samaritan
and at the time he had on light alpacc
G. coat, no shirt, ragged pants, one india rut
r Der and one leather shoe, no socks and wa
OF as miserable a specimen of humanity as on
lie could well conceive. His children are a
lie merried, and his wife is in the enjoymer
st of comfortable fortune. What dispositio
I'd they may make of Enoch remains to be seer
IN but, as yet, they have prepared no fattc
r. calves to welcome the prodigal's return.
- No need to travel any more, eYerythir
Ill is brought wholesale to our doors. On OIL
~ street an entire japanese city; on anoth,
al Pueblo from Central MeXico-no shan
u but the real genuine thing from Poncho
" Mescal. On Broadway, rapidly hastenir
X to completion, is the counterpart of I'll
"a Cripple Gate, as it has stood in London Fl
nc over seven hundred years-an1 with it, v
DC are to have Becfcaters, TIalberliers, Croa
Oh bow men; and all the accessories of Ye OF
Ic' en- Time. When his friend remarked
us Sir Charles Coldstream-"B YOU mu
hu acknowledge that you've nothing like S
ISS Peters in London.". lie replies, "We dol
.es want It, my boy, We don't; if we did, we
'h' haye the confounded thing boxed up al
sent over" That is just what we are doll
ms in New York to-day.
10 A season or two ago thousands of o
-, fashionables-an some not so fashional
:. made scrub race for Montreal to S
bo Tobogganing and the Ice Palace. Bic
CO. your heart we've got EN- all right here NJ
90 Ice Palace, tobogyaning, snow shoe
a. curing--and now We talk of turning +,
+, white bears loose in Central Park, just
&c give the winter scene sort of Polar faye
.aI 1t would be so nice to see a real genui
os Polar bear walking around the obeli.
with a pair of snowshoes slung over
We back and toboggan in his mouth Spea
..a ing of snow shoes-the brayest and t
,,,o best of the Montreal clubs dropped do
h., on us last week: the authorities gave tn,
~. the freedom of the city, and placed Cent
nor Park at their disposal. There was l
ma much snow to speak of, but wbat little
No had, they turned to the best account, a
-, common New Yorker could hardly sc